Music in Islam Examined
Submitted by Saleem Smith on Fri, 08/21/2009 - 13:57
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Is music forbidden in Islam? This article will consider this question.
It is often said that music is prohibited in Islam. Upon hearing this statement most people doubt that such an absurd claim could possibly be true.
If the religion of Islam actually does forbid music, even the majority of devout Muslims would probably find this to be very strange and a cause for concern. Why in the world would a religion prohibit Music? Do any other minor or major religions prohibit music? What did Muhammad have to say about this matter? This article will also consider the many benefits of music.
Let’s examine what the Islamic texts and traditions have to say about this subject. The first two hadith that we will be considering have been selected from what are believed by Muslims to be the canonical texts of Islam. Hence, Muslims must believe them to be the authentic utterances of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and should therefore be obeyed.
Hadith: Sahih Bukhari: Volume 7, Book 69, Number 494v:
Narrated Abu 'Amir or Abu Malik Al-Ash'ari:
that he heard the Prophet saying, "From among my followers there will be some people who will consider illegal sexual intercourse, the wearing of silk, the drinking of alcoholic drinks and the use of musical instruments, as lawful. And there will be some people who will stay near the side of a mountain and in the evening their shepherd will come to them with their sheep and ask them for something, but they will say to him, 'Return to us tomorrow.' Allah will destroy them during the night and will let the mountain fall on them, and He will transform the rest of them into monkeys and pigs and they will remain so till the Day of Resurrection."
Hadith: Sunan Abu-Dawud: Book 41, Number 4909:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Mas'ud:
Salam ibn Miskin, quoting an old man who witnessed AbuWa'il in a wedding feast, said: They began to play, amuse and sing. He united the support of his hand round his knees that were drawn up, and said: I heard Abdullah (ibn Mas'ud) say: I heard the apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) say: Singing produces hypocrisy in the heart.
Hadith Qudsi 19:5: "The Prophet said that Allah commanded him to destroy all the musical instruments, idols, crosses and all the trappings of ignorance."
Muhammad also said:
(1) “Allah Mighty and Majestic sent me as a guidance and mercy to believers and commanded me to do away with musical instruments, flutes, strings, crucifixes, and the affair of the pre-Islamic period of ignorance.”
(2) “On the Day of Resurrection, Allah will pour molten lead into the ears of whoever sits listening to a songstress.”
(3) “Song makes hypocrisy grow in the heart as water does herbage.”
(4) “This community will experience the swallowing up of some people by the earth, metamorphosis of some into animals, and being rained upon with stones.” Someone asked, “When will this be, O Messenger of Allah?” and he said, “When songstresses and musical instruments appear and wine is held to be lawful.”
(5) “There will be peoples of my Community who will hold fornication, silk, wine, and musical instruments to be lawful ….” -- 'Umdat al-Salik r40.0
What puritanical nonsense! If a person were to dig deep enough into the dung heap of Muhammad’s wacky utterances and bizarre behaviour nearly everything could be banned! (except of course warfare, and the all those nauseating and useless Islamic rituals that are part and parcel of the cult of Mohammedanism). The above passages are indeed bizarre and quite an insight into the strange world of Islam. Keep folks in the dark, and keep them afraid, frustrated and obedient, that was the tune that Muhammad sang. The more ignorant and primitive the Muslim, the better Muhammad could readily use them for his own ends -- as foot soldiers to acquire “booty of all types.” Not only was Muhammad a mass murdering brazen thief and a slave trading pedophile, he was also some kind of strange puritanical nut-case opposed even to music! Why all the abnormal behaviour?! How sick was this guy?!
Muhammad preferred not to be asked difficult questions and often ended such inquiries abruptly. From the above hadiths and Islamic traditions we can see that Muhammad’s priority was to keep his followers focused solely on the details of his religion and then use them to kill and die for it when the time called for more booty. One of the reasons that Muslims are so obsessed with Islam and busy trying to promulgate it is because Muhammad has denied or restricted their abilty to enjoy so many of the healthy and common activities of life -- such as music. This is plainly obvious when one studies the reality of how Islam plays out in the real world. When Muhammad was forced to address some of the challenging questions posed to him by his followers, his answers, or verdicts, were often patently ridiculous. Even folks who call themselves Muslims must get a real chuckle out of the some of the absurdity contained within Muhammad’s Islam.
Tragically, the condemnation of music in Muhammad’s Islam has many profoundly negative consequences. Muhammad was truly disturbed and his prohibition of music is just more proof of this. Pastimes such as music and many other social customs that are known to be good for human health are not to be partaken of or enjoyed by Muslims. Many ex-Muslims, such as myself, leave Islam upon learning the truth about this man Muhammad and his incredulous religion. We see Muhammad not as an honest man telling the truth but a deranged warlord and criminal gang leader. The fact that he claimed to be the messenger of God, delivering the one and only perfect religion is just that, a claim. One only needs to look at how Muhammad lived his life and the error-ridden and inhumane documents that he left behind to understand that he was merely a very sick liar and a fraud. Any honest person can plainly see that the founder of Islam, Muhammad ibn Abdullah, was through and through crooked and crazy. A mad criminal who attempted to fool his followers with threats and promises.
In truth, to express one’s self openly and honestly is fundamental to the human experience. For centuries music has been a healthy outlet for such expression. In fact music has played a very beneficial role in human development and the civilizing of mankind. With every passing year scientists are discovering more evidence that music enhances intelligence and that it has many positive effects on human health. It is a fact that humanity in general has derived many benefits from music throughout the ages. Throughout history music has been a rich and profound cultural element to nearly all of man’s diverse cultures and billions of individuals can attest to the fact that great enjoyment and rewards can found in both the creating and listening to music. In reality, due to Muhammad’s illness(es), basically he really only cared about himself and fulfilling his selfish desires, so all of this was lost on the pathetic little fool. As we can plainly see, if one is to submit to Muhammad’s Islam they must also submit their common sense and much of their basic self-honesty.
In conclusion, Muhammad’s ludicrous attitude towards music is very revealing. More obvious nonsense contained within his erroneous theology. No doubt some Muslims and Islamic apologists would be quick to point out that other passages from the Islamic texts and traditions make music Halal. Due to the fact that Islam is full of contradictions and inaccuracies this is no surprise. This proves that Muhammad was not the perfect man and that his Islam is over-flowing with utter nonsense and lies. From the above texts we see that music is actually Haram in Islam. Nonsense such as this should awaken any Muslim of sound mind to the fact that Islam in totality is a ridiculous and harmful fraud, and that its creator was simply a clever con man and a very, very sick liar. Islam’s aversion to taboos regarding music are just more proof of this.
Saleem Smith is a Canadian Ex-Muslim. He has his own site in which he expresses his views on Islam and other issues. Here is a link to his site: http://www.considerationsofacanadianex-muslim.org
I dont know how many of you
I dont know how many of you have heard the mullahs braying from the mosques tops in variuous parts of the world.The donkeys are better to say the least.This screaming and braying from the roof of the mosques these moslem cretins have been doing for 1400 years and no wonder they want music banned.Woyuld a donkey tolerate sweet sounding music? Nahh the pimp allah wants only barying of the donkeys.Stupid Indian moslems do not even know music is banned in islam ans whn they discover it, they are stunned!
To say the leats , moselms are stupid a**hoels to follow this cretin rapist mohammad.in sodi barbaria the muttawas raid the music shops selling CDs and cassttes and close them down.They say music is haram in islam.The only thing halal in islam is sleeping with daughter and sexing with any woman.islam is backward, satupid, silly violent, absurd etc......
Great piece. My piece on Rap
Great piece. My piece on Rap Music and Islam makes this seem relavent. thank you. A music man in Philadephioa has made a muslim only real estate enclave plan for the city of brotherly love. Blacks have sang and dance since time and as Black person I will sing and dance as god gave me the ability to do so. The creator said sing and make a joyful noise. Allah is the DEVIL and hates everything good and Islam is bad the anti-God. Music is god given. thank you
Nice article, music is so
Nice article, music is so natural that even the muslims know their head hancho has gone too far, I bet more than 80% of muslims love and still listen on, no god or prophet got anything to do with music, whatever race you are, you flow naturally with the rythm, to think some invisible mentality got a take on music is to degrade a pure human art, turn on that metallic beat and I will show you how free a thought should be.
The last sentence of this
The last sentence of this article doesn't make sense. I must have made a mistake. What i meant to say was: 'Muhammad's aversion towards music is just more proof of this'.
And Muhammad certainly had an adversion towards music. The hadith from the article prove this. What a disgusting, evil little creep he was. Just thinking about him should make a persons skin crawl.
Speaking of music - i'm a singer in a band and heading off this morning on a mini tour that will take us to several different cities. Off to have some fun with friends! Hope you're having a great summer and that you enjoy the weekend! Cheers.
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Aurangzeb, the Indian Moghul
Aurangzeb, the Indian Moghul ruler, had banned music during his tyrannical reign in India. Many musicians were forced into exile. Those who defied the fatwa had their legs and hands amputated by the cruelest ruler on earth--Aurangzeb. No wonder he learnt that ideology from his pedophile Prophet's sunnah.
I can't live without music
I can't live without music and dance. Life without music is too boring to live!
I like listening to classical
I like listening to classical music.
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Muslim should learn about the
Muslim should learn about the history of pharaoh from metallica song, creeping death, not from quran
Great article Saleem Smith.
Great article Saleem Smith. Thank you.
Music is food for the soul. Islam has no soul - only harsh commands. You cannot expect joy, happiness and love from Islam, the cult of death. Whilst all others celebrate life, it welcomes death and destruction.
The only welcoming music in Islam’s ears are:
The sounds of bombs going off and the wailing sirens of ambulances rushing the innocent maimed and injured to hospitals
The daily five times screeching of their calls to stick their asses in the air and submit to Allah
The lashes of canes and whips accompanied by the chorus of shrieks of pain from women, children and non-Muslims
The sickening thud of stones ripping into the flesh and bones of female rape victims
The howls from enraged mobs of fanatical Muslims baying for the blood of apostates
The childish whining from offended Muslims about how badly treated they are by infidels.
No question. Music is a
No question. Music is a wonderful thing.
As far as I know all other religions use Music in the praise of God. Thus Mo is really out of step here.
As Raisinhead says musis and dance are God given abilities or else inate abilities (for those of Atheistic/agnostic bent) and it is criminal to waste such an ability.
Is it just me, or do Muslims often seem miserable people? Perhaps this is one reason why.
Saleem: what are the references for #1-4? And, if you'll forgive a bit of pedantry on my part, I think your last sentence shoyuld have read "Islam’s aversion to [and] taboos regarding music are just more proof of this."
I think you just missed a word!
thnks for the article, I'd heard of this before, but had not got any references.
As I understood it, the human voice (call for prayer etc), the drum (for marching to war) and weapon sounds are all allowed? I recall having a Taliban "song" inflicted on me which included Koran chanting, drum beat and live machine-gun fire. (says it all, rally, doesn't it.)
Where are the big mouths?
Where are the big mouths? Those cowards only dare to show up in certain articles. Music, dance, television shows, etc, etc are forbidden in islam. Look at saudi arabia, the birthplace of islam and the purest islam you can ever see.
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music is haram in islam do
music is haram in islam
do you really think music will be with the Prophets and with God on the day of judgement ?
of course not
one day you will know
but by then it will be to late
Quran and the sunnah go hand in hand
the flutes of shaytan
the flutes of shaytan
boy oh boy someone has a
boy oh boy
someone has a screen name of 'proudkafir'
amazing.
another person talks about the last prophet [saw]
i feel sorry 4 u
mOSES WAS TOLD TO PLY MUSIC
mOSES WAS TOLD TO PLY MUSIC AND SING AND DANCE. gOD TOLF mOSES TO HAVE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. i KNOW ALLAH IS NOT THE GOD OF MOSES. ALLAH IS SATAN THER LIAR QURAN 3:54
Well done abdulkareem, You
Well done abdulkareem,
You made clear and honest statement that music is totally haram!!! Now..now..to muslims watching this site: Stop singing, dancing, and playing music ok. You'll go to hell!!! So many muslim will go to hell, amazing.
"another person talks about the last prophet [saw]"
saw? You mean like chainSAW??? To butcher people. The last "butchering" prophet.
There are just as many hadith
There are just as many hadith according to which music is allowed in Islam. That goes on to show that hadith are NOT authentic. Learn about Islam before criticizing it.
What does the Quran have to say? Nothing. So music is not prohibited in my book. Again it is for each individual Muslim to decide for himself. No one else needs to EXAMINE the issue.
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Peace not Hatred: What do you
Peace not Hatred:
What do you mean by "authentic" in this context?
Whether or not the Hadith are truly the word of Mo is open to debate for a variety of reasons. But they are certainly "authentic" in that they reflect Islamic beleif at the time they were compiled.
So you take the fact of contradictory Hadith as proof of in-authenticity? The same can be said of the Quran.
So I think that by your bald statement you have put yourself on very shaky theological ground.
You wrote: "There are just as many hadith according to which music is allowed in Islam."
Which ones? I've yet to find one in Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dowd or Malik that okays the use of musical instruments (unless you count Mo's indulgence of Aisha -who else - on Eid in the face of Abu Bakr's remonstrance. This Hadith -Matn is repeated many times in both Bukhari and Muslim, but it is only ONE occurrence!)
Produce the evidence, please.
Peace not Hatred, If only
Peace not Hatred,
If only Muslims were allowed to rewrite the whole of Islams religious texts, to order, categorize, clarify, update everything that the representatives of the majority of Muslims can agree on! And if only they were allowed to do this improving and amending the whole time. Now, with its unchangeable texts, which are so unclear, uncomplete, obsolete and confusing, Islam itself brings about so much abuse of it and criticism and even ridicule on it. In what way can people ever consider these texts perfect nowadays?
I'll go insane if there is no
I'll go insane if there is no music. That is just torture mentally, physically and with in the soul.
Kotuchna: Don't worry! As a
Kotuchna:
Don't worry! As a good Muslim you are allowed, nay exhorted, to chant the Koran or the Azan (5 times a day). Isn't that "music to your ears"?